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Fortunes are built on meeting expectations. Every Big Mac is the same at every McDonald’s. Lightsabers are stupid weapons, but they’re in every Star Wars movie. The WWE is a business empire built on preordained results. And the 2017 GMC Acadia Denali is exactly what you expect of a vehicle sharing its name with not one, but two U.S. national parks.

GMC has been in the SUV business longer than most of the competition has even existed. The GMC Suburban hit the market in 1937, or 61 years before Lexus began churning out the RX300 and 66 before Porsche introduced the big-leap-of-sports-car-betrayal that is the Cayenne. But that Suburban was a truck, and GMC’s existence has always been justified as being the division that builds trucks for people who just like trucks. The Acadia Denali may be the least trucklike thing ever to wear the brand’s logo.

The Denali is the loaded-up, top-rung member of the Acadia family. Redesigned for 2017 , the new Acadia moves from the previous generation’s decade-old Lambda platform that it shared with the Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave, and long-dead Saturn Outlook to General Motors’ new C1 platform, designed specifically to underpin mid-size and full-size crossovers. GMC shares the C1 goods with the 2017 Cadillac XT5 and new Buick and Chevy variants coming soon. The big difference between the two generations of Acadia is the bigness. The new one has less of it.

Compared to its Chevrolet siblings, the GMC brand commands more respect among some buyers, and is known for its more premium interiors on higher trims. With vehicles like the compactTerrain crossover, popular Sierra trucks, and family-friendly Acadia three-row crossover, GMC offers plenty of SUV and truck options for consumers who want a slightly more upscale experience compared to similar Chevrolets.

Least Expensive : The company’s entry-level SUV, the Terrain starts at just over $25,000 and is also the brand’s second most popular vehicle, behind the Sierra pickup truck.

Most Capable and Expensive : With dozens of options, multiple trims, and a host of upgrades, the Sierra 3500 HD in the Denali trim is capable and can be optioned to just under $70,000.